WebQuest Project

Subject Area: Language Arts

 

Topic: Analyzing Dear Mr. Henshaw By, Beverly Cleary and Writing Letters.

Grade: Fifth

Common Core Standards:

READING STANDARDS FOR LITERATURE K-5

The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.

2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

Technology Standards:

1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

 

End Product: Students will be writing their own letters throughout the unit, just as Leigh did. The teacher will give them certain topics to write about based on the book at times and other times the students will be able to free write, just as Leigh did. They will be able to use blogs, word document, social media, etc. to keep record of their letters.